How to Recover Data from Frozen MacBook?

MacBook run in cycles but sometimes the software gets frozen and struck in a loop. When this happens you might find the whole operating system or applications on Mac becoming unresponsive. Here you can learn what to do with frozen MacBook drive and how to get data from it.

Let us consider few situations given below:

Scenario1: “Hi, I am using MacBook for past few months. Today, I was watching a movie, the screen freeze with weird red checkerboard pattern all over. I rebooted multiple times but the result was blank while screen. I am unaware of what went wrong. Is it possible to recover frozen MacBook? Please help me out...”

Scenario2: “My MacBook has been frozen and I can't turn it off. I tried power button as well as control and command simultaneously with no result. I can move the mouse but cannot do anything when I try to give any command. Any kind of suggestions are welcomed...”

Scenario3: “My cousin was managing to change the color display of my MacBook. After sometime system preferences became completely unresponsive whenever I try to open it. When I tried to restart the laptop, it got struck on white startup screen with the logo in center. I need to fix it as soon as possible. Please help me with better suggestions.”

The following session will help you deal with frozen MacBook:

Using force quit: Force quit in MacBook is common way. Choose Menu → Force Quit or press Command+Option+Esc. A screen will appear, and you can click on name of deviant application

Forcing restart: Force quit usually rescues minor issues, but its not effective all the time. If that is the case, you have to reboot your Mac. The assumption here is your frozen MacBook will not permit you to start over in a conventional way by selecting Mac menu and then Restart.

Instead, try holding the power button for several seconds or press Control+Command and then power button. If all fails, disconnect the plug and remove the battery.

Safe booting: To start in safe mode, press the power button to turn your MacBook and press hold shift key till you hear familiar welcome chime. Now release Shift when Apple logo appears. You will know that you have done it correctly because the word Safe Boot appears in login window.

If none of these session helps you to overcome your issue then it is recommended to use any elegant tool to recover data from frozen MacBook, one such program is Yodot Mac Data Recovery.

Let us see some reliable feature of software:

Yodot Mac Data Recovery program can get back data from frozen MacBook within simple mouse clicks. Along with formatted, reformatted, inaccessible or damaged drives on Mac, the algorithms of Yodot program can scan and recover each and every file from Mac drive with no damage. This app helps you to regain files from external storage media drive deleted or formatted with FAT16, FAT32, HFS+, HFSX and HFS file system. This tool supports data recovery from internal hard drive, memory card, flash drives, SSD, portable hard drives, etc. Along with MacBook, user can bring back partition data from MacBook Pro, Mac Pro and MacBook Air to regain data with its original directory structure, path and file names. In demo version of Yodot Mac Data recovery, the user can know steps that have to be followed to restore files. This utility supports to retrieve data from damaged MacBook running with Leopard, Snow Leopard, Lion, Mountain Lion, Mavericks and Yosemite operating systems to obtain 100% safe data recovery. For Windows user, it is mandatory to Yodot Hard Drive Recovery to recover data from frozen hard drive on various versions of Windows operating system.

How to use the software?

Please note: Connect the frozen MacBook to healthy Mac computer to recover data from it.

• First of all download Yodot Mac Data Recovery utility on healthy Mac computer
• Install the tool and follow the on screen steps
• On main window you will get two options 'Volumes Recovery' and 'Formatted / Reformatted Recovery'
• Hit on 'Volumes Recovery' option to retrieve data from frozen MacBook
• Now the tool will display all volumes present on Mac system
• Select the drive from where data has to be restored and click 'Next' button
• Software scans selected partition and shows entire list of files from that partition
• Mark required files which you want to retrieve
• At last, choose a destination location to save retrieved data from MacBook drive using Save option However do not save them on same partition to avoid data mishap

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